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In eternally youth-obsessed and -targeting Hollywood, directors have long complained of being “aged out” of the business, judged too old to serve modern audiences’ (or perhaps just studio executives’) tastes despite all willingness to work. Yet outside the commercial mainstream, this seems to be a pretty good era to be a veteran filmmaker. While it used to be that the octogenarian or even septuagenarian behind the camera was a rarity, these days there’s an increasingly large field of ...

What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: April 30-May 2 Including The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, Tom Clancys Without Remorse and Catching A Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur By Norman Wilner and Kevin Ritchie Apr 30, 2021 N OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of April 30. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. About Endlessness (Roy Andersson) The arrival of a new Andersson movie every few years should be heralded as an event, even if the...

  Short Synopsis: This doc about a son who takes his 75-year-old mother on a bucket-list adventure to reclaim her life also explores the issue of economic insecurity her generation is experiencing. Long Synopsis: Duty Free is a feature-length documentary about an immigrant mother, who, after working every day of her life to support her two kids on one paycheck, is abruptly fired from her job at the age of 75. As she struggles to find new work to support herself, her son decides to repay her sa...

Listen • 5:35 About Endlessness opens with the visual of a couple (Jan-Eje Ferling and Tatiana Delaunay) floating through gray, cloudy skies. About Endlessness is a fitting title for a movie about the futility of the human condition, but happily, the movie itself is anything but a slog. For one thing, its only 76 minutes long. And in every one of those minutes, it strikes an exquisite balance between deadpan humor and acute despair, offset by the faintest glimmer of hope....

Roy Andersson’s latest feature is a somber, exhilarating collection of self-defeating human specimens.

About Endlessness offers crucifixions, a Hitler cameo… and a moving coda for a master director Charles Bramesco on a digital screener  from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s  As previously posited by Lars von Trier in Melancholia, depressive personalities spending their days racked with despair tend to assume a preternatural calm in the face of an oblivion provoking panic ...

Advertisement As previously posited by Lars von Trier in Melancholia, depressive personalities spending their days racked with despair tend to assume a preternatural calm in the face of an oblivion provoking panic in the generally even-keeled. In About Endlessness, the latest film from Sweden’s greatest living director, Roy Andersson—another maximalist Euro-auteur with an ardent following of patient, morose-minded cinephiles—this principle envelops the text instead of coming from within...

13 Films to See in April April 1, 2021 With glimmers of theatrical exhibition starting to find renewed life after a full year of dormancy in New York and Los Angeles, this April brings a handful of films worth seeking out––some premiering exclusively in cinemas while others will also be getting a digital release. From fascinating documentaries to long-awaited releases from renowned auteurs to acclaimed indies, check out our picks to see this April below. 13. Tiny Tim: King for a Day (Johan...

Posted on Saturday, March 13th, 2021 by Christopher Stipp Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week, we catch up with a master of the mundane, start a movement for meaningf...

You know the drill, its Friday which means the  Movie Squad are back in the RTRFM studio for another week of cinematic exploration. This week  Simon Miruado treats us to his thoughts on  About Endlessness, the latest film from Swedish auteur Roy Andersson. It takes surrealist, comic and existentialism into its sights. Plus,  I Care A Lot. It stars Golden Globe award-winner  Rosamund Pike and is based on a New York Times investigation into financial abuse of elderly citizens. As always, you...